On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 07:29:06PM +0200, Catonano wrote: > I'd love to help with testing the Gnome desktop > > The reason why I abstain is because if the desktop environment turns out to > be broken, like in this case, I wouldn't know how to work around that
In general, you can always do a hard reboot and select an earlier GuixSD generation from the GRUB menu if something goes wrong. It's not great to do a hard reboot, but contemporary filesystems like ext4 tend to handle it well enough. > I'm lost in the command line, I'm not even sure I could manage to access > the so called consoles or that I could open an alternative desktop > environment > > If I had a spare computer I would use that. > > Unless using a qemu based virtual machine is a good enough solution > > If it is, then here I am I think QEMU is a fine test environment for GNOME as long as you can use the Kernel-based Virtual Machine in QEMU, which allows the VM to run at near-native speed. When starting QEMU you'd pass '-enable-kvm'. Older hardware may not offer KVM, unfortunately. > Send me an email, indicate me a branch and I'll test it Thanks, I'll keep you in mind :)
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